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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 8.2 is out now! Special Section

Intellect is pleased to announce that East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 8.2 is out now!

 

Special Section: ‘Modern Popular Culture in Middle-Class Japan’

 

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/east-asian-journal-of-popular-culture

 

Aims & Scope

 

The East Asian Journal of Popular Culture is the first academic peer-reviewed journal for scholars, teachers and students from around the world who have an active and passionate interest in the popular culture of East Asia. The journal is devoted to all aspects of popular culture in East Asia and the interplay between East Asia and the wider world.

 

Issue 8.2

 

Editorial

 

General editorial: EAJPC 8.2

EDWARD VICKERS, ANN HEYLEN AND KATE TAYLOR-JONES

 

Articles

 

Panmemic inoculation: How Taiwan is nerfing the pandemic with cute humour

JACOB F. TISCHER

 

Examining the emergence of Hong Kong identity: A critical study of the 1970s Cantonese sketch comedy, The Hui Brothers Show

CHARLES LAM AND GENEVIEVE LEUNG

 

Introduction to the Special Section: ‘Modern Popular Culture in Middle-Class Japan’

 

A modern popular culture in middle-class Japan

SCOTT SOMMERS

 

Special Section: ‘Modern Popular Culture in Middle-Class Japan’

 

The ‘hedonistic revolution of everyday life’: Men’s magazines, consumerism and the Japanese salaryman in the 1960s

MARTYN DAVID SMITH

 

‘Can mom laugh?’: The production of the Japanese television family, 1960s–80s

DAVID HUMPHREY

 

The Takarazuka Revue’s post-war tours of Hawai’i: Exploring Japanese female agency and the restrictions placed upon it

TOSHIKO IRIE

 

Changes in the image of middle-aged women: A study of otona-joshi (‘adult girls’) in Japanese print media

SATOSHI OTA

 

Survivors, victims and soldiers as figures of nationalism: Representations of women in the War of Resistance against Japan museums in mainland China

MARKÉTA BAJGEROVÁ VERLY

 

Book Reviews

 

Japan, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism, Yoshikuni Igarashi (2021)

THOMAS BAUDINETTE

 

The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media, Thomas Lamarre (2018)

MATHIEU RONDEAU

 

Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama, Guojun Wang (2020)

ADAM D. FRANK

 

The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post-Martial Law Taiwan, Kirk A. Denton (2021)

YAN YING